In regard to all these cuts the president and Congress want, not once have I read where the president or Congress took a pay cut. What about their high retirements?

What about Air Force One and the price of gas it uses — or is that provided to the White House for free? Instead of all these vacations, how about limiting its use to important, official business only?

Leave our military alone as they have a job to do. Or does our government want another 9-11 or Pearl Harbor?

Next they’ll be cutting our military doctors and staff. Veterans and families pay a high price for our care, and the same could be said for the police and fire departments.

Take enough benefits and protections away and there might not be any military or emergency services at all — then what?